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Therefore we must affirm no more than these three Primals: we
are not to introduce superfluous distinctions which their nature
rejects. We are to proclaim one Intellectual-Principle
unchangeably the same, in no way subject to decline, acting in
imitation, as true as its nature allows, of the Father.
And as to our own Soul we are to hold that it stands, in part,
always in the presence of The Divine Beings, while in part it is
concerned with the things of this sphere and in part occupies a
middle ground. It is one nature in graded powers; and sometimes
the Soul in its entirety is borne along by the loftiest in itself
and in the Authentic Existent; sometimes, the less noble part is
dragged down and drags the mid-soul with it, though the law is
that the Soul may never succumb entire.
The Soul's disaster falls upon it when it ceases to dwell in the
perfect Beauty- the appropriate dwelling-place of that Soul which
is no part and of which we too are no part- thence to pour forth
into the frame of the All whatsoever the All can hold of good and
beauty. There that Soul rests, free from all solicitude, not
ruling by plan or policy, not redressing, but establishing order
by the marvellous efficacy of its contemplation of the things
above it.
For the measure of its absorption in that vision is the measure
of its grace and power, and what it draws from this contemplation
it communicates to the lower sphere, illuminated and illuminating
always.
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